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Wednesday
Green Burial Panel
Wednesday, April 22nd at 6 PM
Belmont Media Center
This event is free and open to the public.
We are pleased to share this upcoming event, as it has long been requested by interested residents. The Belmont Health Collaborative will host a panel discussion of 4 professionals in the field of green burials: Judith Lorei, a natural burial advocate and co-chair of the Green Burial Committee in western MA; Heather Massey, a Home Funeral Guild, educator and board member of the National Home Funeral AllianceRuth Faas, who offers biodegradable caskets and support at Mourning Dove Studio; and Raya Gildor, who heads the eastern Mass chapter of the Funeral Consumers Alliance (617-859-7990). The Funeral Consumers Alliance (FCA) is a national nonprofit organization that protects consumers' rights to choose meaningful, dignified, affordable funerals.
Earth Day Event: The Lima Climate Discussions of December 2014
Wednesday, April 22 at 7:30 PM
Parish Hall at The First Church in Belmont, 404 Concord Ave.
Free and Open to the Public
Monte Allen, senior development director of CARE and an official observer of COP20 Lima 2014, offers the rare chance for an inside look at meetings that could impact our future. The Lima talks were an opportunity for nations to negotiate and shape their contributions to carbon reduction before making firm commitments at the upcoming climate follow-up in Paris. In addition, the perspectives of several important voices will be shared through videos. Finally he will discuss the broad outcomes of COP20 and his hopefulness about the process moving forward. An opportunity for questions follows. Co-sponsored by The First Church in Belmont Adult RE and FCBGreen Committees.
Tony Alcorn will provide an opening on carbon calculation. You can download the carbon calculator from our website and here.
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Upcoming
Talk: Belmont's Renewable Energy Policy Doesn't Do Nearly Enough
Sustainable Belmont Meeting
Wednesday, April 29th at 7 PM
Assembly Room, Belmont Public Library
Mark Robbins examines Belmont's current policies on renewable energy and compares how Belmont lags far behind the rest of Massachusetts in its support of renewable energy. He'll review the various ways our policies could be changed to really make a difference in terms of climate change action. Along the way, attendees will find out the answer to the following riddles: Why is energy from a renewable resource not necessarily renewable energy? What is actually the largest cross-subsidy that arises from our current energy policy? And finally, mysteriously, why does 29=0 sometimes?
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